Is the Gylfi Sigurdsson/ Michel Vorm/ Ben Davies triple transfer a good deal for Swansea?

So it looks almost certain that at some point in the next few days Swansea City and Tottenham Hotspur will strike a deal that sees Ben Davies and Michel Vorm head to North London and Gylfi Sigurdsson head back to Swansea.

Values have been discussed in the papers with anything from £2.5m upwards being reported to be part of the deal along with the possibility that Spurs may make some payment to offset a potential wage cut for Gylfi to return to the club he performed so well for on loan back in 2012.

It is disappointing to see Ben leave but if rumours are to be believed then his head was turned by the interest from other clubs and he believes that a move away will be in the best interests of his long term career so we always seemed unlikely to stand in his way on that basis.

In terms of Vorm the moment we put pen to paper on a deal for Fabianski then he was always likely to want away from the club. His opportunities of first team football at Spurs will be the same as they are at Swansea although he may find that his appearances include trips in the Europa League which of course is something that we cannot offer him this time around.

The potential arrival of Gylfi back in Swansea though does excite me as I thought he was excellent first time around and I was disappointed we couldn’t sign him on a permanent deal when his loan move ran out. Of course that chance was not helped by the move of Brendan Rodgers to Liverpool during that summer but bringing him back to Swansea is definitely a positive for me.

The question is whether overall the deal represents good value for Swansea and I suspect that we will never find out the true ins and outs of this particular triple transfer deal. Over the past 12 years I think our board have done enough for us to assume that they believe it to be good value and while the playing side doesn’t always work out we have had some pretty good deals in the recent past for player sales.

For me, this is just the start of what I expect to be several transfer deals over the next two weeks and while it is the one that is pre-occupying the papers at the moment I don’t think for a minute it is the only deal that we are negotiating behind the scenes as we continue our pre-season preparations.

Let’s put this one to bed and move onto the next ones – it’s an interesting time to be a Swans fan that much is for certain.